Greetings from the Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering. Our department
is flourishing with record enrollments, alumni involvement and corporate participation.
The importance of the petroleum engineering discipline continues as the petroleum
industry flourishes. The new challenges in exploring and producing unconventional
reservoirs increases the demand for engineers trained on the latest technology and
with critical thinking ability.

The Texas Tech University Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering is growing
stronger. We currently have 11 full time tenured and tenure-track faculty, two instructors,
one adjunct professor, one emeritus professor, and five full time staff members.

The new Terry Fuller Petroleum Engineering Research Building on the Engineering Key is now complete. The building include more than 42,000 square
feet of modern classrooms, cutting edge laboratories, and administrative space that
will certainly assist with the recruitment of students and internationally renowned
faculty to further advance petroleum engineering.

The department is also actively searching for additional faculty members. The planned
addition brings a great deal of experience to our department that to progress further
in both research and teaching.

Thank you for your continued support of the department as we go forward to educate
the petroleum industry personnel of tomorrow.